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6 Alb. Gov't L. Rev. 563 (2013)
Going up in Smoke: The Impacts of the Drug War on Young Black Men

handle is hein.journals/aglr6 and id is 583 raw text is: GOING UP IN SMOKE: THE IMPACTS OF THE DRUG WAR ON YOUNG BLACK MEN By Nekima Levy-Pounds* INTRODUCTION .................................................................... 563 I. AN OVERVIEW OF THE WAR ON DRUGS ..................................... 567 A. THE SHIFTAWAYFROM JUDICIAL DISCRETION .................. 569 B. IS IT CRACK? IS IT POWDER? IS IT DIFFERENT2 .................. 570 II. NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION IN ITIA TIV ES ........................................................................ 573 III. UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION ............................................582 IV. COLLATERAL EFFECTS OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE INVOLVEMENT 583 C O N CLU SION ................................................................................ 588 * Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Community Justice Project at the University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minneapolis). I would like to thank my fantastic research assistant, Tisidra Jones, for assisting me on an earlier version of this article. I would also like to thank my wonderful daughter, Jayda Pounds, for ably conducting research in preparation for this article. Special thanks to my family, and my colleagues at St. Thomas, for their ongoing support of my work. Finally, I would like to thank the wonderful student editors of the Albany Government Law Review for their hard work and dedication in preparing this article for publication.

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